Tapeti

Nora Turato’s artistic material is language. Thus, her work encompasses the infinite terrain of words, be they rhymed and unrhymed, logical and illogical, clever and banal, be they assertions, slogans, or mere text fragments, a scrap from the news, or debris from social media. The artist is actually a performer, and in this genre she created a furor at the 2015 Venice Biennial. She crosses the border between art and life on a whim, and is interested in such rich and diverse topics as reading and swimming, Netflix, the Canadian sportswear line Lululemon, the human voice, the political situation in the Arctic, dogs, advertisements, cinema … In dramatic monologues, deeply embedded in the present day, she turns her obsessions to the audience. Her instruments are the smartphone and the laptop, and with them, she creates posters, large-format works in enamel, and murals made of text components from her performance scripts. The aesthetic of the works refers to design and usage patterns of graphic design, which Nora Turato combines with her own handwriting.